Human Rights 

See also : African Americans -- Civil Rights (U.S.) -- Women's History

• Amnesty International
  "Nobel Prize-winning grassroots activist organization ... focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination.... ".
• Best Information on the Net: Hot Paper Topics
  Links to information about "hot issues" including affirmative action, censorship, the death penalty, gender issues,human rights, internet issues, smoking and tobacco, and more.
• Child Labor  Child Labor Coalition Child Rights Information Network Global March Against Child Labour ICFTU: Child Labor UNICEF: Child protection from violence, exploitation and abuse U.S. Dept. of Labor: Child Labor
• Civil Rights.org
  Current issues in civil rights, focusing on policy and legislation, with hate crime information and statistics, and the "Civil Rights Monitor" journal online.
• Digital Freedom Network
  "DFN supports classically liberal ideas in both the economic and the political realm. We seek to eliminate human rights violations through the implementation of the principles of freedom; robust property rights, free markets, rule of law, and legitimate democracy."
• Facing History and Ourselves
  "Facing History believes that students must be trusted to examine history in all of its complexities, including its legacies of prejudice and discrimination, resilience and courage."
• GlobalLex: International Human Rights Research Guide
  Links to documents, international organizations, news sources, and educational websites.
• Human Rights Watch
  Information about human rights around the world today.
• An Introduction to Social Policy
  "This set of web pages offers a brief outline of key topics and issues in Social Policy."
• IPL: Social Issues and Social Welfare Resources
  Annotated links about various social issues.
• OneWorld.net
  "A global information network developed to support communication media of the people, by the people and for the people — everywhere. Its goal is to help build a more just, global society, through its partnership community."
• Race: Are We So Different?
  "Looking through the eyes of history, science and lived experience, the RACE Project explains differences among people and reveals the reality – and unreality – of race."
• Slavery  10 Shocking Facts About Global Slavery in 2008 Anti-Slavery International Anti-Slavery Society Free the Slaves Human Trafficking Search Human Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery iAbolish.org Modern Slavery 101 Slavery Today UN Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking News: BBC: Slavery Today News: Bitter Harvest News: Google News: Slavery News: Modern-Day Slavery News: The Modern Face of Slavery News: Slavery in the Twenty-First Century
• Social Statistics Briefing Room
  Federal statistics about crime, demographics, education, and health.
• U.N. - Human Rights
  Treaties, research guide, and other information on human rights.
• U.N. Refugee Agency
  News, publications, and statistics about refugees.
• Understanding Prejudice
  "Web site for students, teachers, and others interested in the causes and consequences of prejudice ... (with) more than 2,000 links to prejudice-related resources, as well as searchable databases with hundreds of prejudice researchers and social justice organizations."
• U.S. Dept. of State: Human Rights
  Reports and information on human rights worldwide.
• Witness.org
  "WITNESS uses video and online technologies to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations. We empower people to transform personal stories of abuse into powerful tools for justice, promoting public engagement and policy change."
• Women's Human Rights Resources
  "Introduces women's human rights law in general, emphasizes selected international and Canadian topics, and explores the interconnections between domestic and international human rights law."
• World Values Survey
  "A worldwide investigation of sociocultural and political change." Downloadable.
• WWW Virtual Library: Human Rights
  Annotated links to sites about human rights and humanitarian affairs.

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